I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Animals are good to think with.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves

He takes a hold of the back of my neck.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

You're never too old to take baby steps

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are repressive are often at threat.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.