Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Our military is a disaster.

we are running out of time for dealing with this

The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it’s God’s way of keeping things fair.

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

Children are so precious.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.