To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. you trade in your reality for a role. you give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. they force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.