The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Euthanasia. . . is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.