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

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

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.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.