Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.