You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you...

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me... only he's an imbecile.

What of Art? - It is a malady. - - Love? - An Illusion. - - Religion? - The fashionable substitute for Belief. - - You are a sceptic. - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. - - What are you? -...

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing...

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

As soon as another person becomes important to us, so that we feel in our lives the gravitational pull of his existence, we are to a certain extent astonished by his individuality. From time to time...

The personal eludes biology in just the way that the face in the picture eludes the theory of pigments. The personal is not an addition to the biological: it emerges from it, in something like the way...

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

With all due respect to Israel's primo king, David and I are not on the same page here. I'm more with the seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal, who lived when modern science was coming into...

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super - powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...

'..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that...

The survival of man depends less on the perfection of the senses than might be believed. His reasoning ability has freed him from numerous efforts and obligations, so many of his faculties have been...

Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that...

It's like zen. Only not as subtle.

The law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us. Wanting more is to lose this and to be unhappy.

Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "Beautiful boys."

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

"You know women," confided the fruitseller, "they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men, you know, they'll want them cruel." The youth stranger smiled...

Words are immortal - Elinor

Free is he who does not even know that he is free, nor that freedom exists, nor that prison exists. Free is not he who is beyond good and evil, but outside the obsessions of freedom and prison. To...

As for will, woman should be considered to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

Not all truths are for all ears, nor can all lies be recognized as such by any pious soul.

"Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them."

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that's keeping the...

Time is the "moving image of eternity."