Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.