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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I only see clearly what I remember.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.