There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Those who never have time do least

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.