No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

All love began with a tingling in the heart and a beautiful small smile.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!