What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We do always have to make sure we keep people safe. There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.