To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

People love conspiracy theories.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Life is warfare.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I think what we’ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we’re really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.