Seek to learn constantly while you live

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?

I say awkward things at awkward times, without feeling awkward.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.