The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.