It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.