The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Thework will teach you how to do it.