I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

We know too much and feel too little.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.