Golo Mann

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

The most you get is what you ask for.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.