Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.