“In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.”

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.

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

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.

Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

I haven’t been to rehab, I don’t do anything eccentric – I’m really boring.

Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

I’d love to go on a safari – I’ve never been on a safari.