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

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.

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

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

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.

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.