Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin none of the philosophical sects has admitted it none therefore has spoken the truth

Your perception will determine your reception

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.