So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.