The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

John Berger

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey

Each one of us comes out of our mother's body crying, with or without exceptions. But we are not aware of it. Are you? Do you remember that you cried the very first time you come out of your mother's body? If not, then why are you crying now?

Santosh Kalwar

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Franz Kafka

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Juliette Binoche

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes

George MacDonald

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Alex Kapranos

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas Alva Edison

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Rick Snyder