Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!