"We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder a…"

"Intelligence is no human sideshow but an evolutionary main event. The power to foresee, to call upon the past in term…"

"Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the p…"

"Human war ... has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions."

"A skepticism concerning what one beholds - whether in the arts, in the sciences, or in the deeply etched channels of …"

"I find myself frequently maintaining to any young passer-by upon whose attention I can force myself that a genuinely …"

"The philosophy of the impossible has been the dominant motive in human affairs for the past two centuries. We have pu…"

"Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible la…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"