Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

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.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.