For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.