Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could...

You say ‘I’ and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it – is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say ‘I’ but...

That’s the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and...

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.

…he said firmly, “God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.” “Obviously,” I replied, “they were at liberty to do so, if they...

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is...

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but...

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.–jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the...

Saving and pinching to get married, you’re losing the best time of your life.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to...

I know we didn’t accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other....

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

kepuasan diri melindungi orang bahkan dari terkena pilek. pernahkah seorang perempuan yang tahu bahwa ia berpakaian pantas terkena pilek? saya asumsikan dia hampir tidak berpakaian samasekali

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

With older people, it’s quite different. They’re reliable, they show you what to do, and there’s solidity in their affection.

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of “the mad woman of the house.” And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order...

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can’t make decisions about himself as neatly as all that,” Himiko said, elaborating her friend’s terrific prophecy; ” You won’t get a divorce Bird. You’ll justify...

You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but notbelieved; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon...

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone...

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be...

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we...

You’ve a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I’m out of touch with life. But this is the point where we simply can’t see eye to eye. We’ve...

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts,...

In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like God, that is, to ascribe this will to himself. In the...

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, … what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we’re afraid to teach them.

Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They’ve given up all for nothing. They’ve been cheated. They’re dupes.”Waddington reflected for a little while....

As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for...