Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.