What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

Why do men go to zoos?