1. “There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.”
2. “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
3. “The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.”
4. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
5. “To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
6. “Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”
7. “Education is progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
8. “Those who have suffered much becomes very bitter or very gentle.”
9. “When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.”
10. “A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean.”
11. “In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
12. “One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.”
13. “Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice.”
14. “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
15. “Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”
