I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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.