Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.