Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

Clarity trumps all rules.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

Honor is decency without vanity.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.