He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

You have to believe in it to get it.

Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.