Maturity Is Having The Courage To Use

Freedom Can Never Be Comprehended, Nor Even Can Insight Into It Be Gained.

Among All Nations, Through The Darkest Polytheism Glimmer Some Faint Sparks Of Monotheism.

The Arts Of Speech Are Rhetoric And Poetry. Rhetoric Is The Art Of Transacting A Serious Business Of The Understanding As If It Were A Free Play Of The Imagination; Poetry That Of Conducting A Free Play Of The Imagination As If It Were A Serious Business Of The Understanding.

One Cannot Avoid A Certain Feeling Of Disgust, When One Observes The Actions Of Man Displayed On The Great Stage Of The World. Wisdom Is Manifested By Individuals Here And There; But The Web Of Human History As A Whole Appears To Be Woven From Folly And Childish Vanity, Often, Too, From Puerile Wickedness And Love Of Destruction: With The Result That At The End One Is Puzzled To Know What Idea To Form Of Our Species Which Prides Itself So Much On Its Advantages.

Suicide Is Not Abominable Because God Prohibits It; God Prohibits It Because It Is Abominable.