Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.