The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

Inner peace gives calmness of soul.

which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.

The energy that can rise in real connection is the stuff of revolution.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.