The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

If we love God, we shall desire godliness.

The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

Cause she hold me down every time I hit her up. When I get right I promise that we gon live it up.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Let peace and beauty reign.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.