To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

I have no words to save you.

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.