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.

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

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

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.