Words worth keeping

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The past has no power over the present moment.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.