“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.”
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?