“For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.”

“it is myself I paint. My”

“There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.”

“The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.”

“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”

“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb."

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”

“Each man contains the entire pattern of the human condition. There”

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”

“Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.”

“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”

“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”

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

“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”