Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.