Marty Quotes

I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.

Whatever you love, do it now. Time is not on your side.

One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience.

Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas.

Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.

We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about.

There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse.

The more one thinks, the less one sees.

Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.

There is no need to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

Morality is the clipping of a bird's wings.

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?

Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.

Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind's roar.

Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.

We are all nameless inside.

Be what you are not. The true self is no one.

Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.

Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves

What we invent, we become