God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don’t have any.
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Dare to think for yourself.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.