“Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.”

Visibility is a trap.

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

Government is the right disposition of things.

The individual is the product of power.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.