The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.

Sacred soul searches to know the truth.

I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

"What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.