Wisdom Quotes

"The thoughts of reason are the thoughts of a world of individual adults."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin."

"All that is good and noble is born from understanding."

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"

"I have a feeling I'll regret it."

"That's the whole trouble."

"It's impossible."

"That's the secret, he thought. That's what it's all about."

"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"

"Love, family, art, science—or the passion for the truth"

"The moral of all this is very obvious"

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life"

"To understand is to forgive"

"The heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend"

"I feel I don't understand anything."

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

"Sometimes you worry a lot about something that isn't even going to happen."

"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"

"You pay a high price for consistency"

"Mostly harmless"

"That's the whole problem."

"Insanity is contagious."

"The world is crazy."

"It's all a game."

"They're all mad."

"Nothing makes sense anymore."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"That's the thing that really gets me about this whole thing."

"Man cannot alter circumstances, but he can alter his attitude toward them"