If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.