Saul Quotes

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

It is a joy to be choked with thought.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

Love is the most potent cosmetic.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Let the enemies of life step down.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

Healing is too big a topic for any one person to know it all.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.