All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

He wished he hadn't pulled me from the path of Tyler's van - there was no other conclusion I could come to.