If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.