quotes of day Tuesday, August 11, 2026

“On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.”

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

“Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”

“The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.”

“Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.”

“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?”

“I can snap your spine like a toothpick.”

“When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.”

“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

“Don't just consume things, create things”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

“I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.”

“All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”