There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.