God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Science ... is organized common sense.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

I have a mantra of my own that has helped me through the most chaotic of times. I remind myself that: I am the best, I have the best, and I deserve the best.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.