The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Wise men still seek Him today.

But in action, one defies one's character.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.