It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

Alas for this mad melancholy beast man! What phantasies invade it, what paroxysms of perversity, hysterical senselessness, and mental bestiality break out immediately, at the very slightest check on its being the beast of action.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.