I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
God is not He who is, but That which is.
Desire is the essence of a man.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.