There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!