What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.
Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.