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Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.