Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.