It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.