We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking