renedescartes

Reason is nothing without imagination, but imagination does not imply reason, it appears.

Nihil sub sole novum, as it says in the Bible.

(There is nothing new under the sun)

A bit of the old on the internet no-one knows you're a dog, I think. Therefore I am a webdev dog too.

How do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.