The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

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

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.