Quotes on Thrive

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

One man with courage is a majority.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.