“Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are same.”

Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

To be and to have meaning are the same.

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men’s opinions in which rests no true belief.

Let reason alone decide.

Or how could it come into being ? If it came into being, it is not; nor is it if it is going to be in the future.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.

Now that all things have been named light and night, and the names which belong to the power of each have been assigned to these things and to those, everything is full at once of light and dark night, both equal, since neither has ought to do with the other.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

Mortals have made up their minds to name two forms, one of which they should not name, and that is where they go astray from the truth.

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which thought exists.

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true.

I think when you’re writing songs, it’s impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

You and only you know the pain you are willing to endure to achieve what others think is the impossible.

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.