He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.