10 quotes
It has become a hackneyed truth by now to say that the world is governed by ideas.
The Future of Science (1890)
"Endeavour to be beautiful, and then do at every moment that with which your heart will inspire you;" that is morality in a nutshell.
The Future of Science (1890)
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart; he is, no matter what he does, out of place among men, he is known by a sign.
The Future of Science (1890)
There is nothing more motionless than the nonentity who has never lived the intellectual life, or the dullard who has never seen aught but one side of things. The way not to vary is not to think.
The Future of Science (1890)
I would by far have an immoral people than a fanatical people for immoral masses are by no means difficult to deal with while fanatical masses reduce the world to a state of imbecility.
The Future of Science (1890)
Inequality is one of nature's written laws, it is the consequence of liberty and the liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
The Future of Science (1890)
Science has no enemies save those who consider truth as useless and making no difference, and those who granting to truth its priceless value profess to get at it by other roads than those of criticism and rational investigation.
The Future of Science (1890)
The lofty serenity of science only becomes possible on the condition of impartial criticism, which without regard for the beliefs of a certain portion of humanity, handles its imperturbable instrument with the inflexibility of the geometrician, without anger and without pity. The critic never insults.
The Future of Science (1890)
I, as a man of culture, do not find any evil in myself, and I am impelled spontaneously towards what seems to me the most noble. If all others had as much culture as myself, they would all, like myself, be incapable of doing an evil act. Then it might be said with truth: you are gods and sons of the Most High.
The Future of Science (1890)
Our principle is that we should regulate our present life just as if the future life did not exist, that it is never justifiable to refer to what is beyond in extenuation of any social condition or action. To appeal incessantly to the future life is to deaden the spirit of reform, to relax the zeal for the rational organization of humanity.
The Future of Science (1890)