Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.