If we take science as our sole guide if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable the old theology must go.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf which hunts in a pack has a greater chance of survival than the lion which hunts alone.

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk rejection or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation they check to see which way their friends are going.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

I like video games but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey man what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head like 27 times!'

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

The desire to get married which - I regret to say I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone but for the development of his self.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Another principle is the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Here's a proposal offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States whether born here or abroad should get to be a citizen until age 18 at which time each such resident has to take a test.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86 really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension which I had been seeking for a very long time is now sort of opening itself up to me.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.