"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."

"Among those who are rich enough to choose their way of life, the particular brand of unendurable boredom from which they suffer is due, paradoxical as this may seem, to their fear of boredom."

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."

"The only thing that I strongly feel worthwhile would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world."

"I have found that the greatest joy in life is to be able to do what you want to do."