Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

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

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.