The passions often engender their contraries.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

Be satisfied in your ignorance for there is no safety in knowledge.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.