The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Hell is other people.

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

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.