It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction
When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences
I know this … a man got to do what he got to do
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
What do you know about make-up? You're Just a Girl
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess
Detail from Atilla and his Hordes Overrun Italy and the Arts by Eugène Delacroix
I like you, Maude
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be
I am not afraid…I was born to do this
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope
We do not remember
He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time, those memories whose only function being was to leave behind memories
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering
He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who'd trailed him from the camp, he realized there was no escape out of time, and that that moment he'd been granted to see as a child, and that had obsessed him forever after... was the moment of his own death
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl
I don't know if I'm unhappy because I'm not free, or if I'm not free because I'm unhappy
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you
Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn’t play like Wynton
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time
The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis
Y'all think we care but we don't
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings
Art is never finished, only abandoned
I think over again my small adventures
You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood...
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection
She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won
Wer sich peitschen läßt, verdient, gepeitscht zu werden
Do you like watermelons?
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter