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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a read more
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful read more
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously read more
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest read more
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
