Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.