Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Consciousness is a disease.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.