Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

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

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

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.