To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?