In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

The madman is a dreamer awake

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.