Wisdom

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

I joined the Pass Mods. Class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue.

Knowledge is the seed for thought. Knowledge, experience, and thoughts give birth to wisdom.

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... How utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that you can let go of a past relationship without letting go of the lessons it taught you.

The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about surprise. What is surprising is never what is revealed but the grace with which it has been hidden.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Why am I the only one who thinks she’s messing with us? - Egg.

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.