All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.