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

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

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.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.