Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to …

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly h…

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all …

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.