philosophy

"Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today."

"My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others..."

"A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!"

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."

"We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action."

"The Sound of Killing [10w] + [10w] A doe, a deer, a femaledeerin my headlights.A doe, a deer, a femaledeeron my sunroof."

"He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality."

"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."

"Laughter is the antidote to existential pain"

"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

"Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow."

"No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are."

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

"There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged."

"Library [10w] Hopefully, the library in the afterlife doesn't contain contemporary poetry."

"Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras."

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."

"Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?"

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile."