Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Boys always make things more complicated.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.