“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”

“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”

“I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.”

“Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.”

“All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.”

“He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands alsoloves, notices, sees … The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.… Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”