We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.