What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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.