To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
Jean Paul
Balance is the enemy of art.
Richard Eyre
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
We can know only one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. [p.216]
Simone Weil
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
“The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.