true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Actual philosophers. . . are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Confine yourself to the present.
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.