It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom

I'd spent my whole career dealing with badasses taking care of my nine-month-old boy should be a lark.

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Evolution is your solution.