We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
art is risk made visible