Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.