Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.