Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.