The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Bad things happen in life, but we must learn to deal with them and move on

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.