What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

We live in a bewildering world.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

That government is best which governs least.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

People like to talk about war.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Music is something no one can control.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Science is nothing but perception.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.