Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now...
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is al...
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this...
Rien n'est jamais acquis à l'homme Ni sa forceNi sa faiblesse ni son coeur Et quand il croitOuvrir ses bras son ombre est celle d'une croixEt quand il croit serrer son bonheur il le broieSa vie est un...