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.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

What goes up must come down.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Nature is not human hearted.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.