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Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Fury itself supplies arms.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.

God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's good for you." That's kind of how I try to look at things. Isn't that true, when you look back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

He enters the port with a full sail.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

He that is jealous is not in love.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.