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

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Homophobia is real in this country.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Truth is a pathless land.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Nature does nothing in vain.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

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

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

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

There are a lot of good women in New York.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘