When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.