Famous Quotes

"In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss"

"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."

"Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path."

"Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect"

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

"Love is a cowboy's hardest ride."

"High thoughts must have high language."

"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."

"Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight."

"All actual life is encounter."

"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti."

"We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later."

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?"

"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."

"To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know."

"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"

"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."

"If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards."