We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.
Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.