A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.