If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Man – a being in search of meaning.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

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

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.