The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

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.

Her hair was full of lights

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect, thoughts, imagination, creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell