Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.