That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.