“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”

“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.”

“And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.”

“Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.”

“Death is in truth an illness from which we recover”

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”

“For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.”