Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.