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Ideas come from everything - Author object (422)

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual. - Author object (422)

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. - Author object (422)

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. - Author object (422)

If I won't be myself, who will? - Author object (422)

Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) - Author object (322)

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Author object (322)

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. - Author object (322)

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. - Author object (322)

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. - Author object (322)

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. - Author object (322)

Doubt is the origin of wisdom - Author object (322)

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Author object (322)

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. - Author object (322)

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Author object (280)

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. - Author object (280)

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. - Author object (280)

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship. - Author object (560)

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Author object (378)

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. - Author object (378)