The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.