Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Understanding arises through making

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

Since the Devil is in the details...I don't think I'll elaborate.

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke