28 quotes found
“You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.”
“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”
“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.”
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
“And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.”
“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
“I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit: The bearings are overheating - a minute longer, and the metal is going to melt and start dripping and that'll be the end of everything. I need a qui...”
“I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they werent...”
“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply beca...”
“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.”
“How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have co...”
“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life is happier than us?”
“Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...”
“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”
“Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the sp...”
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.”
“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. ...”
“The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.”
“Do you believe that you will die? Yes man is mortal I am a man ergo... no that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I am asking is, have you ever actually believed it? Believed it com...”
