Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.