I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think

... reason accepts no commandments.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.