"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."