To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Does anyone really know where they're going to?

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.