Admiration spoils all from infancy.
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.