Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Concerned about my safety, are you? -William Herondale.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

I keep my undies in the icebox!

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.