I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

This I know - that I know nothing.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.