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

Science ... is organized common sense.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

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.

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.

All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

I really like natural, warm finishes. I like any of the natural stones, the oiled wood that is kind of a pre-finished flooring. I'm very tactile.

Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop

Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

Character is the plot in many ways

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.