Richard V. Cruz Quotes

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

Trust not one night's ice.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.

Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely.

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.