The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.