As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be alm… - Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

I am beginning to feel that I am growing old; soon, I shall have to eat mush like children. I shall no longer be able to speak, which will be a rather great advantage for others and but a small inconvenience for myself.... The time in which I count in years is gone; that in which I count in days is here.... I had thought that the fibers of the heart would grow callous with age, it's not at all the case. I am not sure that my sensitivity hasn't increased; everything moves me, affects me.... To fade out between a man feeling your pulse and another bothering your head; not to know where one comes from, why one came, where one is going ...

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.