It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.