Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
"You can lump that hat if you don't like it. I dare you to knock it off -- and anybody that'll take a dare will suck eggs." Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.