What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic