“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”

“The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.”

“The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.”

“And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.”

“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”