“Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.”

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

What is is what must be.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Stay in school. Don’t ever be lazy, don’t you ever complain about hard work. Work hard, it pays off.

It’s a new day. Count your blessings, think twice before you complain, give more than you ask for, do what makes you happy and enjoy life.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I don’t want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s pretty certain that she has his.

If I don’t like something that’s going on in my life, I change it. And I don’t sit and complain about it for a year.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.