The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

Don’t give up. You have invested a lot of time already.

It's not so much about what the morning brings

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Life has a plan for each of us

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

It's deep passion for my wife that really makes me vulnerable to her.