The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?