If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

May you have courage to pursue thy dreams.

There's nothing sweet about me, love, " he said.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.