Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.

If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.