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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.