Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

The followers must feel besieged.

Books always speak of other books.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.