Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.