Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

One may choose to call that god even if one does not know the precise nature of the first cause.

Christopher Hitchens

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

Robert Hewison

If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

George Eliot

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

Kurt Vonnegut

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Johann von Goethe

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Edmund Burke

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Kyle Chandler

All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb