...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.