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...

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.

l’action et l’amour

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.

If water was beer I’d be a teetotaler

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

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.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations...

The awful thing is that if i can forget they’re people, it will be no different at all

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history’s organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men...

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn’t even matter.

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you’ve got everything worked out the colours change

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god

Past behaviours are a good indicator of someones present intentions…

WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats...

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a...

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don’t live long enough to realize how redundant things seem 🙂

Never underestimate someone else’s pain.

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

Fiecare dintre noi a inteles, probabil, atunci ca nu exista “mai tarziu”. Ca tot ce nu traim ramane netrait. Eu, oricum, aveam gust de cenusa in gura. A fost prima oara cand am simtit ca...