He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.