In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.

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

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.