To philosophize is to doubt.

Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.