As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I am not a fan of books.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

God created man, but I could do better.

Law is mind without reason.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Man is by nature a political animal.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.