Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.