The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don’t have anything to offer.

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.