#philosophy

"Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure."

"To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven."

"The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind."

"Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown."

"Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure."

"Expectation [10w] Eyes that see with expectation lieby not querying, 'Why."

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new."

"If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything."

"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

"If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace."

"Sex Kitchens of the Future [10w] Her entire kitchen was made of silicone ~ including her breasts."

"Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you"

"When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety."

"Myself [10w] "I don't really know myself;he's only a tenuous acquaintance."

"Life is like a rape. If we cannot resist it, split the legs and enjoy it."

"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."

"Life is a complexwith real and imaginary parts"

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

"This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain."