Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.

I learned about lifefrom life itself, love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.