The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.