Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.