Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

—Paul Valéry

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

Love is being stupid together.

—Paul Valéry

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

—Paul Valéry

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

Be the chief but never the lord.

—Laozi

Imagination rules the world.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.

—John Alejandro King