Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

... all comparisons injure.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.