Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The more you know, the more you see