It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.