There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.