Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

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 complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

Whoever worries only wears himself out.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Intel announced it will move ahead with a new plant in Arizona that probably was never going to move ahead with, and that will result in at least so - in at least 10,000 American jobs.

Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

People are able because they think they're able