I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

When you decide where you turn next in life, look beyond your thoughts, do not trust your emotions, and listen to your heart.

You are the best gift that I receive from God, and you are the Best reason to live in this world.I love you

Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone [in Syria].

It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.