Such as we are made of, such we be.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

There is nothing so stable as change.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.