Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n’a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n’est ni célèbre ni riche, à qui il n’est venu ni enfants ni idées, et dont le public ne...

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport — in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign...

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he...

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to...

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of—the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

You say that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world? Well I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I’ve decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Everyone loves it, everyone wants it, But someone who has enough guts to take it are considered as sluts…Why? Why does world has to be full of double-faced hypocrites?