If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.