It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.