“„If I know what love is, it is because of you.“”

“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”

“ “ If I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.””

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

““He ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions.””

“Private property ... has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim.”

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

“In the night all cats are gray.”

“Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.”

““What fault do you find with them? A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie.””

“No profit whatever can possibly be made but at the expense of another. . . . The Merchant only thrives, and grows rich, by the pride, wantonness and debauchery of youth; the husbandman by the price and scarcity of grain; the architect by the ruin of buildings; lawyers, and officers of Justice, by the suits and contentions of men; nay even the honor and office of Divines are derived from our death and vices. A physician takes no pleasure in the health even of his friends . . . nor a soldier in the peace of his country and so of the rest.”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

“Every person’s life is a journey toward himself,”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.”

“We must scrunch or be scrunched.”

“To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.”

“The answer comes from the realization that genes for behavior, as well as for malaria resistance and teeth, are subject to natural selection.”

“When... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

“ Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans. ”

“The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.”

“The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.”

“Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.”

“Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“The world is constantly telling you that path to a better life is more (…) You are constantly bombarded with messages to give a fuck about everything all the time (…) Why? My guess: because giving a fuck about more is good for business.”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”