Of all the works of man I like best
Those which have been used.
The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
The knives and forks whose wooden handles
Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
Seemed to me the noblest.
Bertolt Brecht
Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
Kabbalah
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love.
Friedrich Hölderlin
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to--think.
Hannah Arendt
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.
Hermann Hesse
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Paul De Man
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.