It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.