To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.