Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom