If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

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.

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

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.