To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.