If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.