Category: Thought

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

At all times man approached his surroundings with wide open senses and a fertile intelligence, at all times he made incredible discoveries, at all times we can learn from his ideas.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.