...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the

And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.