Umberto Eco
Related AMIT KALANTRI ELIZABETH I MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE BLAISE PASCAL ROSE KENNEDY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JOHANN VON GOETHE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CARRIE ANN INABA JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS C. JOYBELL C. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY CRAIG GROESCHEL Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far... GLENN HAYBITTLE JOHN WOODEN LESLIE WEATHERHEAD The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k... LESLIE DIXON WEATHERHEAD MARK TWAIN JEANETTE CORON The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings... GEORGE BATAILLE If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS FRANK CRANE FRANK CRANE HENRY MILLER JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ Which is a thing of beauty. He's been a contributor for us. DAVE NORTON LEO F. BUSCAGLIA PETER USTINOV STANISLAV GROF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM CRAIG GROESCHEL JEFFREY FRY Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Each of us individually has ... JAMES DENNEY The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controllin... LAURA CHINCHILLA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE MARCUS ANTONIUS MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER HENRY DAVID THOREAU MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The demonstration, which ends on Friday, is the first one we have held in China, and in fact the fir... LINTON BROOKS ANNE RICE Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth... TONY D'SOUZA What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do ... DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN SUZANNE COLLINS C. FITZSIMONS ALLISON Most of us don't think the amount of money we have in our back pocket is the only thing that is good... ANDREW MOORE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA BLAISE PASCAL If there was no such thing as death, men would scarcely live. The human race thrives on the fear of ... KIRPA RAI RICHARD GERE PATRICK ROTHFUSS WILLIAM GODWIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA We have a constitution that we have today which is the most enlightened in that part of the world, .... HAMID KARZAI LAILAH GIFTY AKITA MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA FRANCIS CRICK MORARJI DESAI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM DAN BROWN God has given us His word, which is complete. Why the add on? JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM HENRY FORD HENRY FORD What one would have expected is that large studies of high quality would have shown an effect, which... MATTHIAS EGGER EDMUND BURKE كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �... UMBERTO ECO THOMAS TROWARD HART CRANE PETER USTINOV WALTER BAGEHOT ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON C.S. LEWIS THOMAS JEFFERSON GEORGE ELIOT VICTOR HUGO JOHN KELLOGG The whole thing is a process, which only moves along centimeter by centimeter, ... Even if Iraq woul... HANS BLIX HENRY FORD MILO YIANNOPOULOS CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU ALEXANDRA BRACKEN RICKY PONTING Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN MARCEL PROUST ALDOUS HUXLEY GEORGE SANTAYANA I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ... KAREN M. MCMANUS PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us. RON CARLSON RAINER MARIA RILKE Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be fo... ALBERT J. NOCK MARK TWAIN They chose to stay in this community and stay at the University of Northern Iowa, which is obviously... MARK FARLEY SOURCE UNKNOWN
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You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bott... UMBERTO ECO Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he w... UMBERTO ECO To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a... UMBERTO ECO What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. UMBERTO ECO A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy... UMBERTO ECO Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap... UMBERTO ECO But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made ter... UMBERTO ECO Our life is full of empty space. UMBERTO ECO We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfathe... UMBERTO ECO Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that... UMBERTO ECO We like lists because we don't want to die. UMBERTO ECO Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. UMBERTO ECO There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has pro... UMBERTO ECO Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world. UMBERTO ECO The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors o... UMBERTO ECO Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feeling... UMBERTO ECO The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything... UMBERTO ECO I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of televisio... UMBERTO ECO I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. UMBERTO ECO People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. UMBERTO ECO The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. UMBERTO ECO Beauty is boring because it is predictable. UMBERTO ECO The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitt... UMBERTO ECO To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on you... UMBERTO ECO In this new book, I open with a Hebrew quotation nobody is able to understand. This is in order to s... UMBERTO ECO I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ... UMBERTO ECO The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us... UMBERTO ECO Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. UMBERTO ECO Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a proce... UMBERTO ECO I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finne... UMBERTO ECO There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preser... UMBERTO ECO The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats id... UMBERTO ECO A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. UMBERTO ECO Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. UMBERTO ECO I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate dif... UMBERTO ECO Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can b... UMBERTO ECO In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. UMBERTO ECO The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. 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UMBERTO ECO Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ... UMBERTO ECO History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their o... UMBERTO ECO The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear..... UMBERTO ECO The United States needed a civil war to unite properly. UMBERTO ECO We live for books. UMBERTO ECO There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism. UMBERTO ECO A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is unt... UMBERTO ECO All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feeling... UMBERTO ECO Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the med... UMBERTO ECO But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it? UMBERTO ECO Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in th... UMBERTO ECO Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. UMBERTO ECO Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my charac... UMBERTO ECO Then why do you want to know?"UMBERTO ECO The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But aft... UMBERTO ECO Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the... UMBERTO ECO If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried t... UMBERTO ECO We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. UMBERTO ECO My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elem... UMBERTO ECO I felt like poisoning a monk. UMBERTO ECO I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by... UMBERTO ECO I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient... UMBERTO ECO The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so lov... UMBERTO ECO With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China. UMBERTO ECO I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activit... UMBERTO ECO If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. UMBERTO ECO When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to b... UMBERTO ECO I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these ... UMBERTO ECO As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and on... UMBERTO ECO An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the li... UMBERTO ECO It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news. UMBERTO ECO Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not... UMBERTO ECO If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. UMBERTO ECO After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I c... UMBERTO ECO When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. UMBERTO ECO Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that. UMBERTO ECO How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull. UMBERTO ECO What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as sus... UMBERTO ECO People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio... UMBERTO ECO I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts. UMBERTO ECO The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the... UMBERTO ECO The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creat... UMBERTO ECO How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to... UMBERTO ECO I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t... UMBERTO ECO I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the ... UMBERTO ECO I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know tod... UMBERTO ECO We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external ene... UMBERTO ECO But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don... UMBERTO ECO A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own c... UMBERTO ECO Libraries can take the place of God. UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. Y... UMBERTO ECO I love the smell of book ink in the morning. UMBERTO ECO To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened... UMBERTO ECO The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ... UMBERTO ECO If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must b... UMBERTO ECO Translation is the art of failure. UMBERTO ECO The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else UMBERTO ECO Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field ... UMBERTO ECO Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks call... UMBERTO ECO Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the gre... UMBERTO ECO I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a... UMBERTO ECO In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichr... UMBERTO ECO Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others di... UMBERTO ECO I knew the earth was rotating, and I with it, and Saint-Martin-des-Champs and all Paris with me, and... UMBERTO ECO You're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't ... UMBERTO ECO We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-... UMBERTO ECO Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that w... UMBERTO ECO You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to... UMBERTO ECO I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the man... UMBERTO ECO The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fac... UMBERTO ECO Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstru... UMBERTO ECO They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light. UMBERTO ECO From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola UMBERTO ECO What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those be... UMBERTO ECO But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile f... UMBERTO ECO I will tell you the deeper significance of this, which otherwise might seem a banal hydraulic joke. ... UMBERTO ECO You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only becau... UMBERTO ECO Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of... UMBERTO ECO You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite you... UMBERTO ECO I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have... UMBERTO ECO I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, butUMBERTO ECO I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing th... UMBERTO ECO The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by... UMBERTO ECO I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gesta... UMBERTO ECO How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon. UMBERTO ECO Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonabl... UMBERTO ECO We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry. UMBERTO ECO As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong. UMBERTO ECO There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t... UMBERTO ECO He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty m... UMBERTO ECO The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else UMBERTO ECO Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. UMBERTO ECO After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr... UMBERTO ECO الشكوك ليست أبدًا مغالاة ، الشك ، دائمًا الشك ، بهذه ال�... UMBERTO ECO Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ... UMBERTO ECO It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it prope... UMBERTO ECO Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you... UMBERTO ECO Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective;... UMBERTO ECO Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one lo... UMBERTO ECO Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevanc... UMBERTO ECO The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous... UMBERTO ECO In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false informati... UMBERTO ECO When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everythi... UMBERTO ECO La creatividad significa saber quiénes somos. Es jazz sin música, es un flujo de energía. Ser cre... UMBERTO ECO The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. UMBERTO ECO Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm wha... UMBERTO ECO I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is... UMBERTO ECO Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel un... UMBERTO ECO I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that... UMBERTO ECO When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe... UMBERTO ECO Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. UMBERTO ECO Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respira... UMBERTO ECO But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes ... UMBERTO ECO [...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions becom... UMBERTO ECO I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. UMBERTO ECO إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأن... UMBERTO ECO حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخا... UMBERTO ECO But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris... UMBERTO ECO L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt... UMBERTO ECO To survive, you must tell stories. UMBERTO ECO Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn... UMBERTO ECO Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact... UMBERTO ECO Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part... UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev... UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body. UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep... UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ... UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th... UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba... UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi... UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are... UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?" UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a... UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I... UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho... UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه... UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy... UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l... UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the... UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched byUMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names. UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove... UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �... UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in... UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ... UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom. UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now... UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev... UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d... 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I have a question for you. "If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is... 
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an... 
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. 
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. 
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. 
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem... 
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for... 
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for... 
Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile. 
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear.... 
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. 
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k... 
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human ra... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that deve... 
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that deve... 
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi... 
I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walk... 
The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelin... 
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. 
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty t... 
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u... 
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u... 
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! 
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; suc... 
To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us. 
Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would... 
We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect ... 
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nat... 
The secret of my success is my hairspray. 
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. 
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees ... 
If God has given us life, He is capable of any other thing. 
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful. 
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense... 
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from ... 
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In ... 
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realiz... 
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, bo... 
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intenti... 
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand ... 
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... 
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the onl... 
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary d... 
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to... 
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ... 
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For wa... 
The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which ... 
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard... 
The thing I most hate about the Left is that they want to stop us laughing - to prescribe which joke... 
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. 
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it 
Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... 
We have to see where Glenn is at, hopefully he is going to be available for the Ashes, which would b... 
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruel... 
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most o... 
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflecti... 
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the... 
Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most event... 
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. 
God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not,... 