There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.