To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.