Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

La gloriosa donna della mia mente

Sylvain Reynard

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

Voltaire

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.

Daniel Handler

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Virginia Woolf

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Thomas Kempis

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Bruce McCulloch

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

John Gay

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Godwin