This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.