What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far,...
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excu...
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and eve...
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is us...
I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it...
All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a littl...
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom).
Originally I considered myself a singer.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Awakening of consciousness originated from "pain"..
I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
Very simply, I was the original conservative.
That's not a good idea.
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
