Joseph Baretti

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Failure is no accident.

The most you get is what you ask for.

A h** neva gets cold

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and … if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse….I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

I like to surprise myself.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.