“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”
“An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.”
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”
“...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.”
“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”