Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
