Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.