Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.