“For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.”

“it is myself I paint. My”

“There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.”

“The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.”

“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”

“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb."

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”

“Each man contains the entire pattern of the human condition. There”

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”

“Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.”

“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”

“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”

“Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”

“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”

“If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.”

“She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand!”

“Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.”

“When people don’t have access to facts, they invent what they’d like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.”

“Chewie, we’re home,”

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”

“Never underestimate a droid,”

“you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.”

“That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock”

“She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.”

“With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.”

“Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast.”

“Oh really? You’re cold?”

“The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. “Buddy, if we’re gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other.” The trooper stared at him for a long moment. “I need a pilot.”

“A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.”

“Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.”

“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me.”

“Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.”

“A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.”

“Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.”

“A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.”

“No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.”