Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.