One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind., Autobiography
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced while it was still recent.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Last Updated on 16 April, 1997