Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.