Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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

Words are loaded pistols.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I don’t write letters anymore.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

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

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.