Wisdom

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.

In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

He presented justice as a psychological relief.

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning.

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.

It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.

I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age.

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

Good people are always beautiful.