Famous Quotes Ipsum

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free. loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. a ship in a harbor is safe - but that is not what ships were made for. the obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. we can't all, and some of us don't. that's all there is to it. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes..

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' can't say fairer than that. ...love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds, / or bends with the remover to remove: / o no! it is an ever-fixed mark / that looks on tempests and is never shaken....

All art is quite useless. always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. try to be better than yourself. i am not quite sure how writing changes things, but i know that it does. it is indirect - like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. it is not always deliberate - like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. but it does have an effect on the cosmos. before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. the act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. when i dare to be powerful / to use my strength / in the service of my vision / then it becomes / less and less important / whether i am afraid. all religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. all these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. as to the way i've spent my money, i think it has done credit to my emotions, and i don't regret it. on occasion, i have calculated things to a very fine point, but you may well cease hoping that i will ever be practical in the accepted sense. i would sooner die. i wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. every hour i am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth. we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..