The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.