Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.