There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.