All Quotes

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. Interview for Racing is in My Blood , 1991 [7]”

“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying. Interview for Racing is in My Blood , 1991 [8]”

“The actual interview footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViXeYxHfYiw”

“I won and I'm happy and that is it. 1991 Monaco Grand Prix”

“I'm very privileged. I've always had a very good life. But everything that I've gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals... a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver. To all of you who have experienced this or are searching now, let me say that whoever you may be in your life, whether you're at the highest or most modest level, you must show great strength and determination and do everything with love and a deep belief in God. One day, you'll achieve your aim and you'll be successful. Interview, 1991 [9]”

“Barack Obama told ex, 'I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,' letter shows”

“all people are to be treated the same”

“Harvard Student Tackles Racism At Core”

“Rachel Maddow Asks Why Both Presidents George Bush ‘Hate America’ Like Barack Obama”

“No Cushy Post for this Pioneer Harvard Law Review Chief Plans to Work in Inner City”

“Well, things are hunky”

“Race and Rights Rhetoric”

“A Newcomer to the Business of Politics has Seen Enough to Reach Some Conclusions About Restoring Voters' Trust”

“I Actually Believe In Redistribution”

“Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein . He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.… The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors…and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq (2 October 2002).”

“Principles of Descartes”

“This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing. Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).”

“If I had as clear an idea of ghosts, as I have of a triangle or a circle, I should not in the least hesitate to affirm that they had been created by God; but as the idea I possess of them is just like the ideas, which my imagination forms of harpies, gryphons, hydras, &c., I cannot consider them as anything but dreams, which differ from God as totally as that which is not differs from that which is. Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).”

“I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition , that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge ; this, I take it, is the reason why Christians are distinguished from the rest of the world, not by faith , nor by charity , nor by the other fruits of the Holy Spirit, but solely by their opinions, inasmuch as they defend their cause, like everyone else, by miracles, that is by ignorance , which is the source of all malice; thus they turn a faith, which may be true, into superstition. Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November”

“How I know that my philosophy is the best among all that have ever been taught in the world, or are being taught, or ever will be taught?”

“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also. As quoted in The Story of Philosophy (1933) by Will Durant , p. 176”

“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth . For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men. Spinoza, Correspondence, 146, Letter xix”

“All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt. Statement after his excommunication from Jewish society, attributed by Lucas, in The Oldest Biography of Spinoza (1970) by A. Wolf; also in Spinoza: A Life (1999) by Steven Nadler”

“After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness. I, 1”

“The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads”

“What! bring ourselves down to an Equality with the Beasts of the Field! with the meanest part of the Creation ! 'Tis insufferable!”

“Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion”

“Transcript of Benjamin Franklin, Epitaph”

“Apology for Printers”

“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. "On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).”