...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... 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 simultaneous 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.

Nothing short of everything will really do.