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

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.

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.