How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense

Franz Kafka

Its easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled

Mark Twain

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself

Haruki Murakami

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket

Isaac Asimov

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less

Arthur Miller

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind

William Blake

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring

Carl Sagan

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words

Philip K. Dick

Above all do not lie to yourself

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble

Samuel Johnson

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence

Christopher Hitchens

Secretly, we are all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be

J. K. Rowling