Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void. . . We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side. . . Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.
When the Democrats start targeting the rich, they are also targeting the people that hire you, and if they take enough money away from them, you might lose your job - and you're supposed to be happy about that, too, because the rich guy just had his taken from him. This is not arguable. This is how the Democrats go about it.
There is nothing like the love or a child.
It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer. . . . . that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.