Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions..

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony..

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph..

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other..

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be..

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up..

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations..

Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, eve….

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned..

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master b….

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others..

A poem is never finished, only abandoned..

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly..

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts..

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simp….

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious..

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken..

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves..

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows..

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees..

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so..