“Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.”

Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.

Dare to think!

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Such concepts are simple, but not easy,

Making it easier for them to count it up, real nigga.

Standing between who we are, and who we want to be, is that which we find easiest to be.

The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.

Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.