I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

Beneficence is a duty.