As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o’ defeatin’ death, but neither o’ them do a blinkin’ t...
And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you bind yourself to a master. Bound is bound. If your master really loved you, he woul...
Logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married.
What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than go...
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives quite nicely. As legend has it, the camel carries its own water...
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why, when we ponder--as sooner or later each of us must--exactly what we ought...
So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our def...
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.
People are never perfect, but love can be.
Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambi...
Of our nine planets, Saturn is the one that looks like fun.
Morels are ugly in the skillet. The caps look like the scrotums of leprechauns, the stems like the tusks of fetal elephants.
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In a patriarchal society, the abiding sexuality of the healthy female was obliged to wear a prim disguise.