Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.