What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.