After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.