With luck on your side you can do without brains.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'.

Start slow, then taper off

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.