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.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

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

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.