Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.