Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain, was a French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist. He adopted his pseudonym in homage to the 15th-century Norman poet Alain Chartier... (wikipedia)
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
Nothing is more dangerous then having just one idea
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.