"I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Crazy Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“It's not about success, it's about progress.”
“I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."”
“Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world”
“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

Source : "God and the State" (1871)
“I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.”

Source : Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.
“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”
“The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.”
“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

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