A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

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