Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

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

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it