Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.