Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

You know… the airport is the only place you can walk around with no shoes, a glazed look on your face, and sleep on the benches and no one judges you.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.