A great big CONGRATULATIONS! to The Pepsi Addict for recieving guardianship of your two little ones! Yay! I can't wait to be in your shoes.

Dossier should be done by Wednesday we hope!

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.

A spectre is haunting the world - the spectre of communism.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The Papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others

So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I think that philosophy in most aspects is pretty well useless and hopeless unless it's done with other disciplines. And that's the way I like to do it.