In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.