“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

“Paradise is where I am”

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”

“May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”

“I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely ignorant of the reasons for everything I saw and heard and felt, and was merely a parrot prompted by other parrots... When I sought to advance along that infinite course, I could neither find one single footpath or fully discover one single object, and from the upward leap I made to contemplate eternity I fell back into the abyss of my ignorance.”