God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

Without you, I’m not me. Something inside that I didn’t even know about is broken without you.

I don't know how to be anything but pretend, " I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.