A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

The lie is a condition of life.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Science is nothing but perception.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.