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.
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.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.