Water flow away and never come back
…When you're in the darkness, know that the light will come. We are light and dark, sun and moon, male and female, yin and yang; life is composed of opposites, in a continuing cycle of change…....
Think of you! I do not think of you
The question isn't Why do we die? The question is Why do we live?
I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.
Boredom is for the selfish.
Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere
We see the world as less random than it actually is.
"Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual...
Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.
An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.
Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the best parts of life
In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.
Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!
Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.
I don't so much hope that any reader "agrees" with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
A man is known by the books he reads.
Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.
Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I...
Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.
In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.
Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.
MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while...
Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....
All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout - nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer...
Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and...
"Then are there no rules at all, Lord?" Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria. Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. "Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term."
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...