In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Thinking is translating 'prosaic-ideas' without accessories" since ideas (in brain) do not follow any metrical composition.

In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

Without dreams ‘life’remains ‘life’..always: neither better nor worse.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

A brain without a body could not think.

I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.