Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Being is the great explainer.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

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.‘

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.