James Rozoff Quotes

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psycho...

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can...

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse hims...

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a sing...

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.