Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.