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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The best is the enemy of the good.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.