“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
“Faith is an insertion of absolute conviction that is assume without reason and is defended against all reason.”
“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ”
“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.”