Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p. " That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".
When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.