“Never mind what two tons refers to. What is it?”

“All that we refer to as being ours – our body, our mind, our emotions – is not what we are, essentially.”

“At that time there was some truth in the old joke which describes the English dislike of speculation by saying that all our philosophy consists of a short catechism in two questions: “What is mind? No matter. — What is matter? Never mind.” The only accepted appeal was to tradition.”

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

“Never do what people say, always do what your mind tells you.”

“… by virtue of what right
Have I never once tended field or tree?
My government-pay is three hundred tons;
At the year's end I have still grain in hand.
Thinking of this, secretly I grew ashamed.”

“What is the democratic peace? In the literature on or referring to the democratic peace, this means the idea or fact that democracies do not (or virtually never) make war on each other.”

“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”

“The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.”

“What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?”