The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.