Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai d'couvert en moi un invincible

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?

All knowledge is worth having.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Anyway because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis at any time of night or day.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

There are no ordinary moments.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Take it easy, but take it.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Suffering, she said. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

She said, It's not life or death, the labyrinth.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Things do not change; we change.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.