God knows what lives in me in place of me.

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.