"I would rather be a wood-chopper than a professor of ethics."

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"

"The only antidote to materialism is simplicity."