No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.