I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

[This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot

I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]

[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Move at your own pace, don't be afraid - and know that it's going to be okay.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.