Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.