Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.