Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.