Some men are born posthumously.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.