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

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

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.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.