Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I’m constantly thinking.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Man is a universe within himself.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I have to be seen to be believed.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.