If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

To philosophize is to doubt.