Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated