We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.