I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned

I suppose that one's years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like Medusa, she will...

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

Greatness is not always good.

Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt;...

Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies.

To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean its not real

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Edward Johnston

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the...

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Truth is not a stereotype.

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death -...

The present is the key to the past.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

The Law Polarity states that everything has an opposite – it’s the flip side of the coin. You're right, my left; the front, the back. Consider this next time you disagree with someone, because...

I think so much maybe it never ends when this night ends there's another at hand I sleep with one and wake with one with everything else on this life goes on.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.