Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Plato was a bore.

''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart --not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.