“Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.”

“I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.”

“Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel.”

“~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~”

“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”

“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's creative potentialities was in their Ironic criticism of themselves and in their own efforts to make sense out of history. This, at least, led them to view themselves as being as potentially flawed as the cripples they conceived to be acting out the spectacle of history.”