Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.