The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists / in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.