You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.