Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.