If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.