By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.