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.

Science ... is organized common sense.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

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.

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

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

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.