Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

You are the ocean

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination