Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

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

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.