The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.