Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

People who give the best are those who give of themselves – your time, talents, words, knowledge.

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.