“An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind”

“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”

“Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?”

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

“Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying… amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort.”

“Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.”

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

“The progress of the human mind, the revolutions which occur in the development of knowledge, give each century its special character.”

“There is exact correspondence between a world where everything seems to be in a state of mere “becoming,” leaving no place for the changeless and permanent, and the state of mind of men who find all reality in this same “becoming,” denying by implication true knowledge as well as the object of that knowledge, by which we mean the transcendent and universal principles.”

“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.”