“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Science is organized knowledge.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.