“There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character.”

“A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.”

“I certainly didn't write it to be popular.”

“The dominant feature in his character was his devotion to the pursuit of truth”

“Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.”

“Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.”

“I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.”

“There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that Go.”

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”