Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.