Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.