One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.