It Is Almost Impossible Systematically To Constitute

To Imagine Is Everything, To Know Is Nothing At All.

We Find It Hard To Picture To Ourselves The State Of Mind Of A Man Of Older Days Who Firmly Believed That The Earth Was The Centre Of The Universe, And That All The Heavenly Bodies Revolved Around It. He Could Feel Beneath His Feet The Writhings Of The Damned Amid The Flames; Very Likely He Had Seen With His Own Eyes And Smelt With His Own Nostrils The Sulphurous Fumes Of Hell Escaping From Some Fissure In The Rocks. Looking Upwards, He Beheld ... The Incorruptible Firmament, Wherein The Stars Hung Like So Many Lamps.

If It Were Absolutely Necessary To Choose, I Would Rather Be Guilty Of An Immoral Act Than Of A Cruel One.

Man Is A Rational Animal. He Can Think Up A Reason For Anything He Wants To Believe.

There Is A Certain Impertinence In Allowing Oneself To Be Burned For An Opinion.