Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.