In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

The melancholia of everything completed!

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.