... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Proclaiming “the whole will of God” should be the goal—and the joy—of every church and every preacher.

By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.

The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream.