I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature

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.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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