The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.