Streams of Unconsciousness

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”

[Being beaten] It’s nothing if you answer back." "Answer back by being alive.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I shall not try to change anything that I think or anything that you think (insofar as I can judge of it) in order to reach a reconciliation that would be agreeable to all. On the contrary, what I feel like telling you today is that the world needs real dialogue, that falsehood is just as much the opposite of dialogue as is silence, and that the only possible dialogue is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds.

There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

The botanists' plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Past tears are present strength.