Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans who are not really Americans.

Speech is human nature itself with none of the artificiality of written language.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to first of all the environment in which it's being staged then the audience the nature of the audience the quality of the audience.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature the meaning the best of life itself.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.

The psychical whatever its nature may be is itself unconscious.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.