The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Category Archive: November 24
Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana… We’re trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Desire is the essence of a man.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.