I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I answer only to God.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

There is nothing permanent except change.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.