The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine, " and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Maybe I have said it, maybe I haven't chess isn't about math, it's about strategy. If you know math this doesn't make you good in chess, you must have strategy to win.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.

The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have.