The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished.
