The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born

I like suspenseful movies instead of really gory, scary movies because I’m a coward. The suspense genre makes you think.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

As in Europe, the typical American witch-suspect was a woman, frequently middle-aged with few or no children and a reputation as a difficult personality.

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don’t know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields

There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world’s attic, there’s another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it’s Cardiff

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer … Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader’s leg or was even an imposter.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.