The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.