In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Shoot up everything except a school or a playground

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

If Québec separates I will go with it, my loyalties are with Québec

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of