The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.