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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

"I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past."

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."

"Love is metaphysical gravity."

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."