What you call intellectual honesty I call self-deception

For 2 people to love each other, they have to meet, don't they? And 2 people who live in utterly different worlds have no chance of meeting

[He] had no illusions - the doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for th…

Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself…

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.