The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Love conquers everything even karma.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Sales fixes everything.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.