In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

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

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

History is more or less bunk.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.