For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.