When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I’ve had pedicures before, and I’ve had milk shakes. Just never at the same time. And it’s glorious.

You're confident he'll have found him, then?""Well, no. I didn't sat that.""If there's one thing I hate, " Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.