The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.