“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”

“When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.”

“Do you ever think about all the knowledge we pour into our brains and how soon they will turn into mush in the grave? I think about it.”

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. ”