"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"Some men are born posthumously."

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

"One should never know too precisely whom one has married."

"However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself- -ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography."

"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

"MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death."

"A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."

"A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun."