There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ps

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Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of con

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First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

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A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any

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why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy

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If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else

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Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

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Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

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Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about say

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To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along

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We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

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The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions

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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possib

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

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love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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