Ideas too are a life and a world.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

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

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

In every man there is something of all men.