Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

Nie można zrozumieć ani życia jednostki, ani życia społeczeństwa, nie odnosząc jednego do drugiego.

Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.