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

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.

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

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.

Breakfast isn't breakfast without breakfast.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.