St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.