“Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.”

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, ‘Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.’