Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.