philosophy

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

"A prison becomes a home when you have the key."

"Kindness is the beauty of the heart and the smiles of the mind."

"In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable."

"We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own."

"—¿Cómo una persona puede sentirse sola cuando está rodeada de gente? —le pregunté.—Supongo que en eso consiste la soledad —me respondió—. En aislarte cuando se supone que tienes que sentirte rodeada."

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...."

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"

"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."

"FBI vs. CIA When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,he gets a watch.When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,he gets watched.I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~I know this because I have HBO."

"A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important."

"Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it."

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."

"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."

"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."

"Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all."

"How to Treat Your Lover {Couplet} If you want to learn how your lover best to treat,Pretend each time is the last time you'll ever meet."

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."