I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

I crave stillness, And yet I fear the momentStillness turns into boredom, And the moment boredomTurns into loneliness.

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children, ” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.

I’m rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I’m the only son of the devil.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.