“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.