When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye