'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. |
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. |
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. |
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. |
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |