Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.