If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.