Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.