I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.