| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Conformity | We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
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| Life | If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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| Man | If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, whould the human race continue to exist?
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| Nations | Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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| Truth | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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