“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.”

“One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.”

“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.”

“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”