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

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

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

Desire is the essence of a man.

All is One (Nature, God)

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.