Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for His love.

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!