“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”

“Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.”

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”

“Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?-The man without purpose.”

“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. This is particularly true of theories which are based on statistics. The distinctive thing about real facts, however, is their individuality. Not to put too fine a point on it, once could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that, in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.”

“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.”