Humility has the toughest hide.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.