Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

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

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.