Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

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.

A crack on the road does not terminate the journey

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.