Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts–they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Please, God,’ Ruth would pray, ‘don’t let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please...

Where men can’t live gods fare no better.

A good lie does not exist.

Lo que nos hace personas normales es saber que no somos normales.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps...

but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves – rjs

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i’m Dreamer.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

Death twitches my ear;’Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Are we all in fact two people, not one? Are we all One and Another? What I know is that I have an “everyday self,” the one who does things, says things, deals with the...

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.

Always recycle wasted time

If thinking straight is so easy, why is it that it drives us all around the bend trying to,..

In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable,indisputable and totally recognizable.

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time...

My mother delayed my enrollment in the Fascist scouts, the Balilla, as long as possible, firstly because she did not want me to learn how to handle weapons, but also because the meetings that were...

Hope is the privilege of the weak.

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

Are you dying?”Cato lit his cigarette. “It’s not acute, perhaps, but we’re all dying, Harry.

#quote La vida es como es, no como nos gustaría que fuera.

Just as Man developed morals and ethical behavior over thousands of years of evolution; so, too, did he invent an authority figure to enforce these behaviors – God.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something… is immune from change and shines out… in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

When the loneliest place on earth is in your mind, move out!

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the...

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel,Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro:Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kingsWhile trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head;No cries...

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and...

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English–a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger...

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Some people will hate you for pursuing what you love. Make sure you don’t love them more.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else’s box of matches

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not...

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

Alternately in our lives come black and white.Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:no light, no life, no meandering respitein the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Life is like a double-blind experiment. And the Observer is the only One in on the Know.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you’ve been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.