You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
The motive of success is not enough.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.