Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

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.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

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.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most.

Love yourself. Care for your body. You are God’s image.

Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.

All human life is precious.

Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.