I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.
We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
You can achieve only that which you will do.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.