It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

My bed is the magical place where I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Donald Trump is a disrupter, that's why he's winning.

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

I can’t believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)

Death is the only real elegance.