Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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

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

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

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