Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.