What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Real Women are Covered to be Discovered in due time

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Start with the end in mind.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.