I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little