Never mistake motion for action.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.