Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
