If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.