The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Technology is going to play an increasingly, increasingly, increasingly important role in every industry. And it's good.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.