All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Music is really driving my whole life.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Imagination decides everything.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

In art the best is good enough.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

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

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.