Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

At times I think and at times I am.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.