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

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

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