The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

I am sorry," Will said. "No," Jem said... "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry.

Muslims have to report the problems when they see them.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.