Stephan Attia Quotes

Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.

The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride.

If you wish to slay a dragon you must charm it first.

Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden

I do have a religion; it's just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.

It is better to lose riches than to lose sense of humor

But he who feels too much,
He soars in angels' tears of joy ...

The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy.

No one can defeat destiny,
But everyone can make peace with it.
At the same length:
No one can outsmart destiny,
But everyone can reason with it.

It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.

I only wake up twice a year,
And twice a year I live;
In the equinox I am aware,
Flying high and everywhere;
On other days I grieve.

Mankind's biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.

When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

The way to salvation begins with self realization

Free will is a gift, not a burden

Oh the stellar sensation,
Oh the cosmic elevation;
Time is sober in death,
For the wine of love;
Is the blue life of the earth.

The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind

When the Earth was just a child,
He searched for his mother Venus;
And for his father Mars,
But they were not home;
They were gone elsewhere,
Out there, in the great expanse;
Beyond the breathing universe.

How do you know your boss is a lesbian?
It's when she always park her bike in a dike

If I'm a nobody, why do you bother telling me that?

When people are to busy to survive they forget to live.

There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love.

And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.

A society without humour is like a tree without roots.

On sunny days of summer,
I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ...

Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?
Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara's Bush!
From 'Walk On By II

What can a man read in a library of cannibals?
Bloody books bound by bones in tissues' paper.

For those who sense and comprehend,
They know that heaven is at hand;
The river blue which stream and stream,
It has the pictures of my dream.

We were born to serve humanity, not to slave for society

Better poetry than riches,
Better poverty than fortunes.

I'd rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.

Time never existed, time will never exist, for time is existing