Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives about us, the value for good and evil, of the aims men have pursued and the means they have adopted. It is good, from time to time, to view the present as already past, and to examine what elements it contains that will add to the world's store of permanent possessions, that will live and give life when we and all our generation have perished.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.