“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world.”
“Whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
“The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason.”
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
“Custom is the great guide of human life.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“Authority, not truth, makes the law.”
“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them.”
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”