I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.