Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Investing in yourself is the best way to utilize time

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

Knowledge is justified belief.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.