Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.