Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.