Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.