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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Education is the transmission of civilization.