Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.