Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which miraculously it seems merge into a significant event.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

If conquerors be regarded as the engine drivers of History then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who less conspicuous to the travelers eye determine the direction of the journey.

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through mans history is the beating of war drums.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The most persistent sound, which reverberates through men's history, is the beating of war drums.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.