Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

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 man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.