As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

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.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!