there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.