Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.