I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

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.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.