Exploitation of the weak by the strong is as natural as eating and differs from it only in rapidity; we must expect to find it in every age and under every form of society and government.

The first lesson of philosophy is that we cannot be wise about everything. We are fragments in infinity and moments in eternity; for such forked atoms to describe the universe, or the Supreme Being, must make the planets tremble with mirth.

Nothing reaches maturity except through the fulfillment of its own nature.

Tradition is the voice of time, and time is the medium of selection; a cautious mind will respect their verdict, for only youth knows better than twenty centuries.

The lives of great men all remind us how brief is immortality.

Civilization does not die, it migrates; it changes its habitat and its dress, but it lives on. The decay of one civilization, as of one individual, makes room for the growth of another.

The notion that goods cost less in the past than now is probably the enchantment of distance; in terms of labor required to earn the money to buy them they generally cost more.

Philosophy is a luxury for the few, religion is a consolation for the many.

Art is significance rendered with feeling through form; but the feeling must accept discipline, and the form must have structure and meaning, even if the meaning outreach the realm of words.

Radicals do not grow up in palaces.

One can never tell in what tense man's gratitude is felt.

Nothing, save bread, is so precious to mankind as its religious beliefs; for man lives not by bread alone, but also by the faith that lets him hope. Therefore his deepest hatred greets those who challenge his sustenance or his creed.

Isocrates thought that the Assembly should be paid by Athens' enemies to meet frequently, since it made so many mistakes.

Philosophy is the quest for understanding through perspective.

Statesmen who organize successful wars, just or unjust, are exalted by both contemporaries and posterity.

Modern theory lives by nibbling at tradition.

When a man covers a vast field many errors may be forgiven him if the result adds to our comprehension of life.

In every civilization the time comes when old ways must be re-examined if the society is to readjust itself to irresistible economic change.

All religions are superstitions to other faiths.

Though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason makes brothers of its lovers in all times, and everywhere.