One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations.
The ‘gallows’ are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which.
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are.
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato’s world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
The ‘missing link’ between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
Einstein’s space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh’s sky.
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
Two half truths do not make a truth.