Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.