The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.