“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”

“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that...”

“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I ...”

“It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.”

“For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.”

“Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.”

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. Whats the point? he said. Kids arent getting jobs. You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”

“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing itthey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principl...”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] isGiven the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.”

“Grant me one hour on loves most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.”

“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!”