Men still have to be governed by deception.

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.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think

Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen