“If untruths become part of our languageuntruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speechthen each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning...”

“It was only in the middlebetween the immense and the minutethat sadness seemed to exist.”

“When you look at it objectively, thats what most colonists dothey land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was perm...”

“The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.”

“If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meani...”

“It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other...”

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary master...”

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”