Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

Beware the man of the single book