When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.