Which Quotes

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.