I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.