Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.