A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

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

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals