Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.