“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”
“We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.”
“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
“I’m being unjustly maligned!”
“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”