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

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

The best path through life is the highway.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

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

Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.