Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

these contacts are bearing fruit.

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.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.