Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

That wasn't love

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.

I remember when I was a kid that the only way to see Hulk Hogan wrestle was you'd have to go to the live shows. He was never on TV. So I thought "Why not do the same thing?"

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.