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.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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