I am in the world to change the world.
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.
I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.