Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

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

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.

Time stays, we go.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Theology is unnecessary.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

God always has patience.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?