Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.