Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.