The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

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The superior man responds

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

I like grown up comedy.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.