Fame is a heavy burden.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.