There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

To know truly is to know by causes.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.