Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

I have used these weeks to revalue values. Do you understand this expression? When you come right down to it, the alchemist is the most praiseworthy of men: I mean the one who changes something negligible or contemptible into something of value, even gold. He alone enriches, the others merely exchange. My task is quite singular this time: I have asked myself what mankind has always hated, feared, and despised the most

Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to G

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

J. Michael Straczynski

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins

The career stuff is for business people.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Steve Martin

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Karl Von Clausewitz