So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

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