Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Fear first created the gods.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.