Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.