Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.

Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Sit with the repentant, for they have the softest hearts.

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.