How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.