It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.