The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.