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

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.