When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.