Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.