It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began...

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily...

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A...

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for...

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

An honest man is always a child.