Wisdom

The self-glowing of the phenomenon of being conscious hits the act of being conscious itself.

To intend a perception is already to become conscious of something.

The ultimate end of man we call beatitude.

To be able to see what is right and not to do it is the want of courage.

The first prerequisite for the perception of the truth is concentration.

Life becomes intolerable when there is no longer any opposition. Like the rhyme in a poem.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game.

The more one beseeches, the less one knows what to say.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

There is nothing outside the text.

Man's first lesson is that there is no remedy for death.

The most efficacious artifices are those in which their own artifice is at greatest risk.

Capital is not a thing, but a complex product of the soul.

Nature is like a vast library full of books in many languages, but the books are indecipherable, and we might never know what they say.

Problems are not always solvable, but the capacities we have for dealing with them can be real, even though they are different from what philosophers or theologians have imagined.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

All life is problem solving.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.