The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.