Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.