Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.