“The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.”

“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.”

“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.”

“Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”

“Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person whos willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they ca...”

“A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.”

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a t...”

“I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try...”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.”