Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.