I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.