There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.