Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of your body except the heart.

Night is the mother of counsels.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.