“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”

“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”

“I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.”