Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Love is stronger than violence.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

We broke a lot of stuff at Herman's, ... They weren't too happy with us.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

One can be happy when he finds his dream, but every dream has to be followed by a new one and you can't capture any of them forever.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

I know you are, but what am I? [As Pee-Wee Herman]

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Hermaphadidic porn. Starlets with both organs. You should see the box, beautiful chicks with dicks that put mine to shame.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Are you a hermaphrodite table?

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.