Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

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

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

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

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

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

Truth is a pathless land.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

Plato was a bore.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.