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

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.