Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The weight of wait.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.