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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.