An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).