“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.”

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.

There are pockets of extremism in Israel,

He implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.

If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, “What would the world be like if it were true?”