philosophy

"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."

"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"Teenagers [10w] Teenagers are the lone survivors of a ruthless hormonal holocaust."

"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."

"Knowledge is power is time is money."

"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

"In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious."

"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."

"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."

"But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!"He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself."

"We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time."

"He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work."

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."

"You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly."

"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."

"When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies"

"Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS."