Weisheit

New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

It is not for a vulture to teach an eagle how to hunt.

...Changelessness is decay.'A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.'Changelessness is a change for the worse...

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions of science but its value system, namely to seek to explain the world, to evaluate candidate explanations objectively, and to be cognizant of the tentativeness and uncertainty of our understanding at any time.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.