Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.