“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Life comes only from life.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

A nothing will serve just as well as something about which nothing could be said.

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die