Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.