The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

Science ... is organized common sense.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.