Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.).

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for t….

Continuity in everything is unpleasant..

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.].

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we ….

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something real….

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth..

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them..

Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what mak….

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in ….

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it..

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny..

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that..

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical..

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it..

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't..

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is l….

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing..

All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each o….

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family..