Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.
If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.