The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.