No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.