Where The Senses Fail Us,

It Is Necessary For The Bible, In Order To Be Accommodated To The Understanding Of Every Man, To Speak Many Things Which Appear To Differ From The Absolute Truth So Far As The Bare Meaning Of The Words Is Concerned.

That Sculpture Is More Admirable Than Painting For The Reason That It Contains Relief And Painting Does Not Is Completely False. ... Rather, How Much More Admirable The Painting Must Be Considered, If Having No Relief At All, It Appears To Have As Much As Sculpture!

The Hypothesis Is Pretty; Its Only Fault Is That It Is Neither Demonstrated Nor Demonstrable. Who Does Not See That This Is Purely Arbitrary Fiction That Puts Nothingness As Existing And Proposes Nothing More Than Simple Noncontradiciton?

You Cannot Teach A Person Something He Does Not Already Know, You Can Only Bring What He Does Know To His Awareness.

If There Were As Great A Scarcity Of Soil As Of Jewels Or Precious Metals, There Would Not Be A Prince Who Would Not Spend A Bushel Of Diamonds And Rubies And A Cartload Of Gold Just To Have Enough Earth To Plant A Jasmine In A Little Pot, Or To Sow An Orange Seed And Watch It Sprout, Grow, And Produce Its Handsome Leaves, Its Fragrant Flowers, And Fine Fruit.