I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

It is not important who you are

Is there any pure pleasure like praying?

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.