Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)