With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.