Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.

I had a soccer double, but most of what is in the movie is me!

It's okay to be messed up, because there are five other dudes who are just as messed up as you.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.