Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.