If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Philosophy bakes no bread

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.