Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.