"There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer."

"We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."

"All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion."

"Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something."

"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."

"There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist."

"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool."

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

"All are one"

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"The best ideas are common property"

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"

"In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society."

"In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably."

"A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little."

"The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?"

"Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe."

"All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."