“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.

We become what we behold.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

The eye altering, alters all.

My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.

Just remember: I love you, and love yourselves. ’cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.

I was born and reborn continuously, different people draw different me.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.