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

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.