The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.