The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.