Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.