philosophy
“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
“I rebel—therefore I exist.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”
“We live, as we dream—alone.”
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest is analysis.”
“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
“The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
“Time is the substance I am made of.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”