1. “A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.”
2. ”I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”
3. “Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.”
4. “Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.”
5. “Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.”
6. “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.”
7. “Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.”
8. “To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.”
9. “We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”
10. ”What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the rightconclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
11. “When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always in the book?
