A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him.

When people really deteriorate, their only contribution is malicious joy in the misfortune of others.

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.