Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate ….

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if w….

The more the change, the more it is the same thing..

I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're….

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers..

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on..

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness..

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false..

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will..

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember th….

L.A. I could live without..

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..

Nothing is true and everything is permitted..

Good books are the warehouses of ideas..

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take yo….

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue..

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalte….

Power wears out those who don't have it.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome..

To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fi….