The truth is cruel, 

but it can be loved, 

and it makes free 

those who have loved it.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Friendship is almost always 

the union of a part of one mind 

with the part of another; 

people are friends in spots.

One's friends are that part of the human race 

with which one can be human.

An artist is a dreamer 

consenting to dream 

of the actual world.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

My atheism, 

like that of Spinoza, 

is true piety towards the universe 

and denies only gods fashioned by men 

in their own image, 

to be servants of their human interests.