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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.