There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.