It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

All is to be doubted.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.