My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.