Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Sometimes your instinct takes you where your body can't..أحيانا غريزتك تأخذك إلى حيث لا يستطيع جسمك

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

I'm always wearing a Nebraska hat. Most of the time I'm wearing something that's got a Husker something on it. I make sure I have it on TV but I have it regularly.