...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different sche...
The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire bla...
When all that says 'it is good' has been debunked, what says 'I want' remains. (...) The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. (...) My point is that those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot ha...
Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to actually decide what they believe, declare what they believe, and then l...
And what other kind of man would you want leading you into battle?” he says, reading my Noise. “What other kind of man is suitable for war?” A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men. “Wrong,” says the...
Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him they cannot be 'justified' or 'made just'. That is to say: they cannot conform to Him Who is love. Those who have not receive...
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for whom I will tame myself voluntarily.. Be the man who can make me forget my birth date in moments of utter dellusion. Be the man whose arms are m...
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
A good man, but his mad dog won't let you speak to him.
Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.
Where once there was a void, Now at least there are Seeds of splendour, Becalmed belief for another time.
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
