We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which “similar” things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.