How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Lyn Nofziger

I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say.

Raul O. Leguizamon

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Don DeLillo

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

William Hazlitt

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Lee Iacocca

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom T. Hall

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

W. H. Auden

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Benjamin Franklin

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.

Hayley Williams

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus