Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

The instruments of power -- arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets -- always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny .

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.