The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

But a girl always knows.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

The highest, i.e., the most general concepts, are the poorest; ultimately these are just empty shells, as, e.g., being, essence, thing, becoming, ect. - incidentally, whatever could philosophical systems produce when they are merely spun out of these same concepts and have as their matter only such empty shells of thought? They must be infinitely empty and poor, and therefore, turn out to be tedious and suffocating.

always remember that we are in Germany where we have been able to do what would have been possible nowhere else: namely to proclaim as a great mind and profound thinker a mindless, ignorant, nonsense-spreading philosophaster who, through unprecedented, hollow verbiage, thoroughly and permanently disorganizes their brains. I mean our dear Hegel. And