The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.