Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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?

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Theology is unnecessary.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Every man is his own hell.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Time stays, we go.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.