There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.