Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.