We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.