"The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and..."
"The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it."
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool."
"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
"I think one of the most important changes of our time has been our attitude to fear. Every civilisation defends itself by keeping fears out and saying 'we protect you from fear'. But it also produces new fears and throughout history people have changed the kind of fears which have worried them."
"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
"I am, therefore there is a God."
"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene."
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
"Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills."
"Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them."
"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."
"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
"What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die."
"A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name."
"Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him."
"Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed and eating away at the foundations, trying to topple him. Whether they will succeed will be a test of his robustness."
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
