The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

jerk.smokes cigars.will die of lung cancer, hopefully soon.excellent physical shape.

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.