As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

you roll me out flat

Only God can satisfy and set us free.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

My actions speak louder than my words.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.