Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.