The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

To present is to take a stand and being responsible.

It is better to learn late than never.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.