Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i. e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. . . . The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.
By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.
As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.
Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.
I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.
I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.