Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.