I have found you an argument; 

I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The most creative people 

have this childlike facility 

to play.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The unread story is not a story; 

it is little black marks on wood pulp. 

The reader, reading it, makes it live: 

a live thing, a story.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; 

the former begets knowledge, 

the latter ignorance.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

War remains the decisive human failure.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Life is a song — sing it. 

Life is a game — play it. 

Life is a challenge — meet it. 

Life is a dream — realise it. 

Life is a sacrifice — offer it. 

Life is love — enjoy it.

Re-examine all that you have been told... 

dismiss that which insults your soul.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, 

but the best weapon of a democracy should be 

the weapon of openness.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

The unfed mind devours itself.

Some people will never learn anything, 

for this reason, 

because they understand everything too soon.