Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.