Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.