The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.