Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.