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Obviously, the truth is what’s so. Not quite so obviously, its also ‘so what?

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one’s inner striving from one’s trade as far as possible. It is not good when one’s daily break is tied to God’s special blessing.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

We become what we think about all day long.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her

You know what kind of man I think you are? You’re the kind of man who would stand there and smile at his torturers while they were tearing out his guts–if only he could find faith or a god.

Listen: if everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what have children got to do with it

David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of skepticism as a philosophy, all of the members of the gathering nonetheless left by the door rather than the window

I do feel… that I now have a better understanding of what the key problems are than I did ten years ago. At times I even persuade myself that I can glimpse some of the answers, but this is a common delusion experienced by anyone who dwells too long on a single problem.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory

When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.

Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

The worst men often give the best advice

Thou art but a little soul bearing about a corpse.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

I wouldn’t mind dying so much if it wasn’t that I would be dead at the end of it.