Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.