All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Consciousness is a disease.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.