What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.