Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.