Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Great intellects are skeptical.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.