An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.