"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence to support this."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

"Most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so."

"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive."