Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learni...
Finally, let me share a feeling of mine, I hope it will not be misinterpreted as pride. I am seventy four now. But still, if they give me a duty in the wooden hut where I used to stay when I was a mentor long years ago, I will gladly run there and tr...
Having bad experiences sometimes helps; it makes it clearer what it is you should be doing. I know that sounds very Pollyannaish but it’s true. People who have had only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy afte...
I just wanted things to be simple. I didn't understand why things had to be so complicated for all the grown ups. And I decided that if growing up meant things got confusing, then I would stay little forever. I would stay simple. But unfortunately ev...
It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a ...
Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January...
[last lines] Professor Levy: [voiceover] We are all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions. Moral choices. Some are on a grand scale. Most of these choices are on lesser points. But! We define ourselves by the choices we have made. We ar...
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
I really think everything happens for a reason.
People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.
'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.
Reason, you'll always be half-blind.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.
Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
