Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

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.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.