I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we...
But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.- So it is.- I haven’t the time to...
Be ugly, be God
A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll...
Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step to some chosen end across a span of time. The wor...
The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.
So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind.
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bles...
It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
If some men attempt to survive by means of brute force or fraud, by looting, robbing, cheating or enslaving the men who produce, it still remains true that their survival is made possible only by thei...
He’s not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander’s delusion—prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeede...
For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.