If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

No self is of itself alone.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.