Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.