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- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
- Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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