Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.