Can sıkıcı bir budalalığı betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklarına din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuğu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öğrendiğ… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A frail body weakens the soul. This is the origin of the empire of medicine, an art more pernicious to men than all the ills it claims to cure. As for me, I do not know of what illness the doctors cure us; but I do know that they give us quite fatal ones: cowardice, pusillanimity, credulousness, terror of death. If they cure the body, they kill courage. What difference does it make to us that they make cadavers walk? It is men we need, and none is seen leaving their hands

y yo me adapto tan fácilmente a un método de vida, cuando es voluntario, que sólo hubiera deseado que éste durase siempre.

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