Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.