Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Weakness is strength.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Reality is inside the skull.