...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.