Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the Stateas those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.
The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.