In the end, everything is a gag.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have courage and the will to use it.
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Simplicity of approach is always best.
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.
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