It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.