"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices."

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary."