Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.