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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Philosophy

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Philosophy

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Philosophy

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Philosophy

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Philosophy

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Philosophy

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.