Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.