We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

Love opens us.Pain deepens us.Courage strengthens us.Joy enlightens us.Beauty renews us.

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.