"Education is the transmission of civilization."

"A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas."

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."

"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."

"The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past."

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near."

"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

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

"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

"The first source of art, then, is akin to the display of colors and plumage on the male animal in mating time; it lies in the desire to adorn and beautify the body. And just as self-love and mate-love, overflowing, pour out their surplus of affection upon nature, so the impulse to beautify passes from the personal to the external world. The soul seeks to express its feeling in objective ways, through color and form; art really begins when men undertake tobeautify things."

"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."

"And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like those dramas so beloved by the people-in which every villain is punished, and every act of virtue meets with its reward; we learn anew every day that the wisdom of the serpent fares better here than the gentleness of the dove, and that any thief can triumph if he steals enough. If mere worldly utility and expediency were the justification of virtue, it would not be wise to be too good. And yet, knowing all this, having it flung into our faces with brutal repetition, we still feel the command to righteousness, we know that we ought to do the inexpedient good."

"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."

"Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled."

"Virtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history."

"Death like style is the removal of rubbish."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

"Shame is a child of custom rather than of nature."

"Indeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy."

"We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived."

"When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty."

"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."

"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

"Voltaire theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states protected by geographic situation, and as yet unspoiled and untorn with wealth; in general 'men are rarely worthy to govern themselves.' Republics are transient at best; they are the first form of society, arising from the union of families; the American Indians lived in tribal republics, and Africa is full of such democracies. but differentiation of economic status puts an end to these egalitarian governments; and differentiation is the inevitable accompaniment of development."

"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"War does one good-it teaches people geography."

"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."

"Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way."

"Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind."

"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

"The story of the 'bondage' in Egypt, of the use of the Jews as slaves in great construction enterprises, their rebellion and escape - or emigration - to Asia, has many internal signs of essential truth, mingled, of course, with supernatural interpolations customary in all the historical writings of the ancient East."

"Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies."

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy."

"Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief."