Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip