I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it’s the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.

Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.