There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can’t be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is – or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
