You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.