America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all.

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.