The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

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.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]

I know I'm delicious. Nummy.....nummy. -Vlad

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'