The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?