A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

The problem of finding a collection of “wise” men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear