Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.