Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

Loyalty,

The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs: it had just the opposite effect. It gave rise to a secular...

He who does not work does not eat, certainly, but he who works no longer lives.

Impatience is a twentieth-century virtue. At twenty, when they saw, or thought they saw, what life could be, the sum of bliss it held, the endless conquests it allowed, they realised they would not...

"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...

I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at the piano playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius,...

Travel is much more rewarding when it ceases to be about reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living our life.

Words are immortal - Elinor

Didn't books say that too: that there is always a price to pay for happiness?

from arrogance came apathy, from apathy came ignorance, from ignorance came hatred, and from hatred, well…nothing good ever came from hatred.

"They'll probably gang up on you this time." "Lovely! Any advice?" "Pray." "Which god?" "All of them."

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests - - - disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what a happy life looks like. Happiness is often described as the result of having a great many ducks lined up in a row - spouse, offspring,...

Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.

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...

Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

Evil one may attain easily and in abundance: smooth is the way and it dwellth very nigh. But in front of virtue have the deathless gods set sweat: long is the way thereto and steep and rough at first....

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.

Getting angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this, certainly, is not as easy as it sounds.

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.

All the world's follies, he replied, turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with...

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

There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotence in lovemaking. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose...

- Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? - Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

"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...

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire, walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully,...

Time is the "moving image of eternity."