To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

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

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.