Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.