philosophy

"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."

"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world."

"Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem."

"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

"I wonder why peopke are so afraid of love. Of different kinds of love. I just don't get it. Why aren't we afraid of racism"Of war? But love? It just doesn't make sense."

"Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets."

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

"When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul."

"Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view."

"What One Vulture Said to the Other I have a bone to pick with you ~which end shall we start on?"

"Too lazy to be ambitious,I let the world take care of itself.Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?Listening to the night rain on my roof,I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out."

"You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of."

"Speak to the Head [10w] + {Couplet} Tis of no fucking availTo speak to the tail."

"Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'."

"Fall down again, Bella?'No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face."

"He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober."