. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

The breeze is cold and refreshing, I draw the night into my lungs and try to calm myself down.

The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.