God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
I cannot live without books.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge