Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

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

The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very great steps in its direction and now discover we are still very far away from it. With the most rational philosophers an increase in their knowledge is always attended by an increased conviction of their ignorance.