If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

Men always makes gods in their own image.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.