To be is to be perceived

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Your thought should be creative and not destructive

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

'The Princess Bride' is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.