The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.